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Selected. >> absolutely. you know what i forgot and have not mentioned but talking with omara and west yesterday, the prosecution used one of their preemptory charges on an african american, that supports my theory, jeff will cackle, it supports my theory they threw the case -- >> thats not accurate. >> did they use a preemptory challenge -- >> you cant say they threw the case, thats ridiculous. >> can i ask one question. will you answer this for me? >> no. >> you wont? >> no. >> their pretext i...

Will you answer this for me? >> no. >> you wont? >> no. >> their pretext is he was a fox news watcher. if that is true, then that supports my theory and i know everybody says its fanciful that they threw the case. >> i dont think they threw the case. one of the problems they have with these discussions about race and juries is that it leads to the assumption that every black men holds exactly the same views about everything -- maybe the prosecution was right to though -- >> can i tell you someth...

One juror thought about leaving and it wasnt necessarily related to the trial, from my understanding. it was related to her personal family issues, a child care issue. thats at least the understanding that i was given before the interview began. >> yeah, but you never know is that a pretext or anything else. the fact she said it was split to begin with is exactly -- paul has to be as a prosecutor thinking i cannot believe what these guys did. they took this case -- >> i will say it again, i thin...

>> thank you. >> an unsuspecting young woman going by the name nicole is the first to take the bait tonight. >> all right. what do i get for my $200. >> full service. >> officers next door listen carefully for the bust signal. good deal. >> all right, good deal. >> arresting officers move in to make the bust. >> police. >> do you have any guns, weapons, knives? >> no. >> how about on your person? >> no. >> hand over your head. >> a quick search of nicoles pockets turns up $380 in cash. a records...

Government. secondly, the military was not grabbing power for itself. its one thing if the military is setting itself up as the new authority. in this case, though, there seems to be -- and i put the emphasis on seems to be -- a political transition. now, it may turn out to be this is just a sham and the military was just using this as a pretext to gain political power for itself, in which case, in hindsight, well say, gee, it actually was something of a coup, and then well have to decide what i...

Pending lawsuit is over racial gerrymandering. using the voting rights act as a pretext to create jim crow districts. what the republican legislature did with the congressional map which was i think 7-6 demographic accurate representation of the states politics created three districts in which democrat -- in which president obama got more than 70% so the other 10% are pretty republican. they did that by saying that the voting rights act required that they put black folks -- >> create opportuniti...

Multiple news outlets, that hong kong would ask for more information about his identity demonstrates it was simply trying to create a pretext for not acting on the provisional arrest request. >> well couldnt the u.s. government simply look in his u.s. passport. issued by the state department, the passport office and take a look and see what his first name, middle name and last name is, to make sure that whatever name they provided the chinese would coincide with the passport. even if it had been...

To allow fraudulent practices to continue. this administration wants laxitity. when you have widespread instances of voter fraud coming up, when you have entire segments of the demographic of voters totalling more than the population of demographics in this area, the states have to step in and do something, and holder has been -- eric holder, the attorney general has been fighting that for a long time on this pretext that theres a lot of discrimination and theres this gerrymandering thats going ...

To allow fraudulent practices to continue. this administration wants laxitity. when you have widespread instances of voter fraud coming up, when you have entire segments of the demographic of voters totalling more than the population of demographics in this area, the states have to step in and do something, and holder has been -- eric holder, the attorney general has been fighting that for a long time on this pretext that theres a lot of discrimination and theres this gerrymandering thats going ...

Blocks of voters getting abducted by aliens or not being able to be found and please dont interrupt me. >> im sorry, im -- >> then we have with minorities being preventsed from voting. the -- this is a pretext, that this administration has been fighting, these conditions do not exist any more. and i agree with the high court. >> on a positive note. the country thankfully rightly so has made a lot of progress, and what the court was saying here is, you cant use 40-year-old outdated data as it rel...